Bobcat!

[tiggymalvern]

We had three young bobcats in our garden this afternoon! Two of them stayed fairly well hidden and only showed themselves briefly, but the third was kind enough to pose. They have black ears with white spots on, like a tiger :-)))) (The video looks a bit fuzzy because I was filming through a flyscreen.)

"Bobcat!" (Watch on YouTube)

Comments

[anirrationalseason]

Oh wow! How cute it looks. We're supposed to get bobcats in our area but so far they never appear close to residences, so that's very cool you got to see one.

[tiggymalvern]

They were so sweet! We live really close to a state park, so they stray into the streets around the edges now and then. But after ten years of hearing neighbours tell us they saw one once, it was finally our turn :-)

[tameiki]

How nice that he decided to pose for you. I love looking at wildlife from our home... except for the prairie dogs that have moved into our back yard lately. Lately, I've been seeing more coyotes where before we rarely saw them but heard them every night.

What other wildlife do you have in your area?

[tiggymalvern]

The coyotes come and go around here. Some years we see and hear them regularly, other years (like this year) very rarely. They seem to move their dens around the area.

Our list of mammals is pretty good - two species of squirrels, raccoons, opossums, mountain beavers, rabbits (okay, those are invasive eastern cottontails, not quite so good), coyotes, long-tailed weasel, black-tailed deer, Townsend's chipmunks, Pacific deer mice and now bobcats :-)